Rowing

[intoronto 6,902]

Rowing teams results at worlds are disastrous. For ex. Men;s double sculls (with Trevor Jones) finished last in the heats behind countries like Indonesia. 

[intoronto 6,902]

To add, both Eights boats finish fourth in their respective heats and will not make the A final.

[JockCartier 311]

I know there is an ebb and flow to results, and the program has had turmoil recently... but still, holy crap this is bad. Even when it was bad before we typically had a full slate of boats and made a lot of finals, and now we can barely manage a half slate

Edited September 25, 2025 by JockCartier
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[George_D 1,640]

And rowing is the 3rd most successfull sport for Canada in Olympics. Mesures must be taken immediatelly 

[JoshMartini007 2,861]

13 minutes ago, George_D said:

And rowing is the 3rd most successfull sport for Canada in Olympics. Mesures must be taken immediatelly 

Take into account that rowing has fewer medals than athletics/swimming and we basically have our best summer sport in total taters. 

[orangeman 2,876]

3 hours ago, George_D said:

And rowing is the 3rd most successfull sport for Canada in Olympics. Mesures must be taken immediatelly 

Sorry, off topic, but this means Summer McIntosh has won 25% of Canada's swimming golds. That is crazy. She's not even 20 years old. 

 

Also, almost 1/3 of Canada's swimming medals (20) have come just in the last three cycles. Consider we only got 12 in the 7 cycles before that, including only 1 gold. That brings us to 1984, that's why I stopped there. 

 

For Athletics, almost 25% of medals (17) have come in the last 3 cycles, with almost 1/3 (6) of the golds in that time. We only got 9 medals, and 3 golds in the 7 cycles before that. 

 

This is why Canada's overall medal counts at the SOG were so low historically, we just didn't compete in the sports with the most medals. Now we have some swimmers who can compete for multiple medals, although our track/field output still seems one and done. At least we had De Grasse for a while. 

 

As for rowing, about 20% of the total medals and 50% of their golds came in just 1992 and 1996. Seriously, our rowers won 4 golds in Barcelona, while the entire Team Canada would not win 4 golds all together again until Rio. 

Edited September 28, 2025 by orangeman

[JockCartier 311]

3 hours ago, orangeman said:

This is why Canada's overall medal counts at the SOG were so low historically, we just didn't compete in the sports with the most medals. Now we have some swimmers who can compete for multiple medals, although our track/field output still seems one and done. At least we had De Grasse for a while. 

This is why in the Winter Olympics I think we'd really benefit from getting serious about cross country... between that biathlon and NC, almost 25% of all medals involve cross county skiing (and even if NC gets the boot, it's still over 20%). 

Gotta go where the medals are, not to mention the crossover potential for athletes

Edited September 28, 2025 by JockCartier

[JockCartier 311]

6 hours ago, George_D said:

And rowing is the 3rd most successfull sport for Canada in Olympics. Mesures must be taken immediatelly 

And when combined with it's cousin, canoe/kayak sprint, it's absolutely massive

[orangeman 2,876]

3 hours ago, JockCartier said:

This is why in the Winter Olympics I think we'd really benefit from getting serious about cross country... between that biathlon and NC, almost 25% of all medals involve cross county skiing (and even if NC gets the boot, it's still over 20%). 

Gotta go where the medals are, not to mention the crossover potential for athletes

I thought we were getting there in the 00s with Beckie Scott and Chandra Crawford. Then it disappeared. It's just odd for a country with the natural features to be so weak in x country and alpine. Alberta + BC have double the population of Norway, with the best conditions in the world. No reason they can't compete with Norway for those sports just by themselves. Quebec does it with short track. 

 

But we digress. Totally off topic. 

[Josh 13,502]

5 hours ago, orangeman said:

I thought we were getting there in the 00s with Beckie Scott and Chandra Crawford. Then it disappeared. It's just odd for a country with the natural features to be so weak in x country and alpine. Alberta + BC have double the population of Norway, with the best conditions in the world. No reason they can't compete with Norway for those sports just by themselves. Quebec does it with short track. 

 

But we digress. Totally off topic. 

We have a few medal contenders in alpine skiing. Alexander and Crawford are the main two and Grenier and St Germain can surprise on a day, but yeah nothing concrete. 
 

Cross country skiing has been looking kind of bleak lately, but we have some youngsters that have been really impressive (Sonjaa Schmidt, Liliane Gagnon, Allison Mackie) just hope they can make that leap to the senior level. 
 

 

Edited September 28, 2025 by Josh